Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
About Longman Cultural Editions
About This Edition
Introduction
Table of Dates
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
Volume I
Volume II
Volume III
from Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1831)
M. W. S.’s Introduction
Some Additions to Robert Walton’s first letters
Some Additions and Revisions to Victor Frankenstein’s Narrative
Victor’s childhood and the adoption of Elizabeth–Victor’s enchantment with occult science and his encounter with modern science–Victor’s departure for University of Ingolstadt–Clerval’s straits–Victor meets Professors Krempe and Waldman–Victor’s health suffers–Elizabeth’s report on Ernest Frankenstein–Clerval’s lament for William–Victor’s anguish over Justine and William–Victor’s continuing agony–[Creature’s story of framing Justine]–Victor’s plans for a second creature–Clerval’s imperial ambitions–Victor’s apprehensions for his family, his longing for oblivion–Victor’s secret
Contexts
Monsters, Visionaries, and Mary Shelley
Aesthetic Adventures
Edmund Burke on “the Sublime and the Beautiful”
Mary Wollstonecraft on Burke’s genderings
William Gilpin on “the Picturesque”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)
Mary Wollstonecraft, from Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman: Jemima’s story
Mary Godwin (Shelley), from her journal of 1815: the death of her first baby
Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Alasto; or, The Spirit of Solitude
Mary Shelley, with Percy Bysshe Shelley, from History of a Six Weeks’ Tour: Alpine scenery
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mont Blanc
George Gordon, Lord Byron
from Manfred, A Dramatic Poem
from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third: Alpine thunderstorm
Leigh Hunt, from Blue-Stocking Revels, or The Feast of the Violets
Dr. Benjamin Spock, from Baby and Child Care
The Story-Telling Compact
George Gordon, Lord Byron, A Fragment
John William Polidori, The Vampyre
God, Adam, and Satan
Genesis: chapters 2 and 3 (King James Bible)
John Milton, from Paradise Lost
William Godwin, from Political Justice
George Gordon, Lord Byron, Prometheus
William Hazlitt, remarks on Satan, from Lectures on the
English Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
from Prometheus Unbound
from A Defence of Poetry
Richard Brinsley Peake, Frankenstein, A Romantic Drama in Three Acts
Reviews and Reactions
[John Wilson Croker], Quarterly Review, January 1818
[Walter Scott], Blackwood’s Edinburgh Review, March 1818
(Scot’s) Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, March 1818
Belle Assemblée, March 1818
British Critic, April 1818
Gentleman’s Magazine, April 1818
Monthly Review, April 1818
Literary Panorama, June 1818
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, March 1823
London Morning Post, reviews of Peake’s Frankenstein, July 1823
George Canning, remarks in Parliament, March 1824
Knight’s Quarterly Magazine, August 1824
London Literary Gazette, 1831
[Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumous], Anthenæum, November 1832
Frankentalk: “Frankenstein” in the Popular Press of Today
Further Reading and Viewing
